Richard Sarnoff

Education

Bachelor summa cum laude, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1981. Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, 1987.

Career

Joined Bantam Doubleday Dell, Inc., 1987, various positions including director marketing Bantam public division, vice president strategic planning, senior vice president and general manager diversified public group, then senior vice president corporation development, 1995—1998, executive vice president, Chief Financial Officer, 1996—1998, Random House, Inc., 1998—2000, president, new media, corporation development group, 2000—2006, executive vice president Random House Ventures, LLC, president Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, 2006—2011. Senior advisor Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, New York City, since 2011. Board directors Princeton Review, Inc., 1998—2009, Audible, Inc., 2001—2008, Activision Blizzard, Inc., since 2005, Oak Hill Capital Fund II.

Supervisory board Bertelsmann AG, 2002—2008. Co-chairman Bertelsmann, Inc., 2008—2011.

Achievements

• Richard Sarnoff has been listed as a noteworthy publishing executive, firm executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Bronx Lab School, Children's Museum Manhattan, Center for Communications. Member of Association American Publishers (chairman board directors).

Connections

Married Ann Misiaszek. 2 children.

Spouse:

Ann Misiaszek